To Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu (Day 9 of 20 days of SCALE)

I’m a little behind in my blogs so I’m doing two today so in todays post in my prep for my yearly weekend at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) Im going to cover with a lot of brevity one of the most popular versions of Linux out there. Ubuntu.

Let me clarify why I’m going to be so brief. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE some Ubuntu. To me, a conversation about Linux that doesn’t include Ubuntu or Fedora/Red Hat is missing a little something. For that reason there isn’t too much I want to say about it because you’ll definitely get an ear full about it in whatever setting you go. Well, on the desktop at least. I don’t want to upset the Ubuntu peeps too much because I’m sure they’re working really hard on getting it into server rooms (I have actually installed an Ubuntu server at a small office with no problem) but it’s most brought up for home use.

If you are going to set up a computer at home running Linux the favorites are Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSuse to me. Now let me change my first statement just a little bit. In my opinion the way to install these is using KDE as the display manager. Ubuntu up until probably a year ago or so stopped breaking the version into different names according to how you liked the screen to look. There was Kubuntu (KDE version), Xubuntu (lightweight XFCE version), and I think a couple more. Like I tell everyone though. KDE versus the Gnome, Unity or whatever the flavor of the week is is up to you. I made myself actually laugh a little bit because there is an interface called Cinnamon which actually is a flavor.

Go go go. Get a copy of Ubuntu and play with it. It is also based off of the Debian .deb format that I mention a lot as being one of the easiest ways to install software in Linux even though I’d also advice downloading and installing a program called Synaptic which I always install first to make installs even easier.

Come out to SCALE Feb. 22-24 and find me giving the SCALE tours (Phillip Banks) or follow me on Twitter and Facebook and Ill give you a couple other ideas from what you do everyday.

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